About Lock n’Pop

2. About Lock n’Pop • Company established 1972 • Products sold worldwide • Domestic sales through rep and distributor network • Exclusive focus on load unitization • Primary in product manufacturing and quality control • Over 4,000,000,000 pallets stabilized by Lock n’Pop

3. Why Lock n’Pop is Used • Increase load stability • Reduce costs • Increase productivity • Eliminate losses due to damages • In transit to your DC’s or customers • Within the manufacturing location

4. Customers • Food and food ingredient processors • Beverage processors • Chemical manufacturers • Produce packers • Industrial manufacturers • Fine paper manufacturers

5. Tropicana Coca-Cola IBP McCormick Con Agra Hunt-Wesson Cereal Food Processors Krispy Kreme Land O’Lakes Cargill Customer Examples

6. Product Attributes • Water-based • Repulpable • Ingredients approved by FDA, 21 CFR 175.105 • Product will set in temperatures from –20 to 180 degrees F • Firm locks unaffected by temperature, humidity or time

7. Advantages Over Stretch Wrap • Potential cost reduction: • Savings in labor and/or materials • Minimal capital expense • Minimal maintenance • Improves throughput

8. Advantages Over Stretch Wrap • Improves: • Internal load stability • Non-routine inspections • Space utilization • Partial pallet handling

9. Advantages Over Stretch Wrap • Customer advantages: • Loads still stable after partial depalletizing • Avoid mess of condensation under wrap • Improve stocking efficiency • No disposal mess • Improved environmental impact

10. High Racking/Close Tolerances are Easy with Lock n’ Pop

11. Preventing Shifting on Stacked Bags is Easy with Lock n’Pop

12. Advantages over Adhesives • Customized product selection • No product separation, so no mixing required • No volatile organic compounds (VOCs) to report • Virtually invisible on packaging for clean results • No sticky residue to foul equipment or customers • No heat application saves on cost and injury • No cobwebbing or build up on equipment or conveyors • Low maintenance

13. Lock n’ Pop is Applied Clean, using Unique Low Maintenance Materials and Methods

14. Advantages for Refrigerated or Freezer Storage • Unique capability to bond in cold and freezing conditions without using sticky materials • Reduction in time and energy for cooling • Maintenance of top loading strength by preventing condensation from wrap • Improved efficiency of order picking by eliminating need to remove wrap

15. Effects of Condensation • Study completed by Nethercote and Boisvenu in Performance & Evaluation of Shipping Containers indicates potential loss of compressive strength up to 70% on boxes that were not wax treated and exposed to refrigerated and/or freezer storage. Condensation was cited as the primary factor contributing to the loss.

16. Application Equipment • Auto application (preferred) • Taper application • Manual application • Primitive application

17. U 1000 Automatic Applicator

18. U 1000 Details • No tools required for change adjustment • PLC control • Modular design, pieces can be installed separately • Low pressure alarm • Sensors with background suppression • Single station pump • 2 spray guns with spray tips • Spare parts • Electrical 90-240 VAC with 24 VDC control voltage • Air requirements 80-125 PSI • CE approved

19. U 50 (Taper Applicator)

20. U 50 Applicator Details • Liquid pump • Spray tips • Spare parts • CE approved • Requires 110 VAC and 80 PSI air

21. Portable 5-Gallon Manual Applicator

22. Manual Applicator Details • Operates like garden sprayer, except that spray pressure is controlled by plant air entering tank through pressure regulator/relief valve. • Lock n’Pop is filtered and carried through an expandable hose to the spray gun.

23. Exclusive Lock n’Pop formulations for ambient/refrigerated/frozen: Corrugated boxes Point of purchase cases Point of purchase displays Kraft bags Clay coated (point of purchase) display cartons Woven poly bags Export containers Product Types

24. Getting Started • Plant survey • Packaging evaluation • Plant trial

25. Plant Survey • Customer objectives • Application environment • Plant physical set up • In-house handling, storage, and shipping methods • Pallet configuration/s • Packaging

26. Packaging Evaluations • Product recommendations • Application rate recommendations • Spray tip recommendations • Expectations (good and bad)

27. Preferred Plant Trial • Criteria established with customer for determining success • Equipment set up as recommended • Product run on several pallets for fine tuning • Lock and appearance evaluation by plant personnel • Final set up based on customer feedback • Run for 30 days • Final evaluation

28. Equipment Options • Buy • Rent • Buy or rent by including cost in chemical purchase • Lease option through 3rd party

29. Customer Support • Reps and distributors provide local service • Field service tech available if needed • 24-hour customer service • Orders processed same day with delivery within 1-3 days, depending on location • Packaging evaluations as needed for life of customer • No Questions Asked guarantee on product for 1 year from manufacturing date • National network of reps and distributors to assist with shipping evaluations

30. Partnering for Success • We have developed a special relationship with our customers that maximizes the effect of our experience and expertise • As an outside vendor, we sit on the Damage Assessment Team for Georgia Pacific • We work closely with Damage Assessment Teams from Coors, Perrier, and Cadbury